Turkey has an extensive history of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoot Hamas, and far beyond. Turkey has collaborated with the worst jihadists, including ISIS. It is a particularly dangerous country, so much that it can be reasonably concluded that NATO would be reckless to continue to include it as a member. It should have long ago been ejected as a NATO member.
Algemeiner gave an update on Turkey’s most recent activity in promoting Hamas:
This week, Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalın met in Ankara with Khalil Al-Khaya, a senior Hamas negotiator, and the terrorist group’s political bureau delegation to discuss prospects for advancing the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire — marking the second such meeting in under two weeks.
Last week, Kalın also met with senior Hamas leaders in Istanbul, underscoring Turkey’s ongoing diplomatic engagement with the Islamist group.
Notably absent from both meetings’ public summaries was any mention of Hamas’s disarmament — a key condition of the US-backed peace plan, which the terrorist group continues to reject, further complicating ceasefire efforts.
“Turkey’s NATO role under scrutiny amid new report on Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood ties,” by Efrat Lachter, Fox News, April 1, 2026:
A new report is raising concerns about Turkey’s role in the Middle East, arguing that under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country has moved away from its traditional Western alignment and toward deeper engagement with Islamist movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies report, led by senior fellow Sinan Ciddi and titled “Islamist Domination of Turkey: A Forward Base for Muslim Brotherhood-Aligned Jihadism,” argues that Turkey has ties to Hamas — the U.S.-designated terrorist group responsible for the Oct. 7 massacre — as well as to the Muslim Brotherhood — an Islamist movement whose affiliates have recently been designated as terrorist organizations by the United States — placing Turkey’s policies under renewed scrutiny as it prepares to host a NATO summit.
Ciddi told Fox News Digital the shift reflects a broader transformation in how Turkey defines threats.
“What we have is Turkey has completely rewritten the rules of how you interpret what a jihadist terrorist entity may be,” Ciddi said. “Erdoğan has reinvented what is interpreted as a terrorist entity … groups such as Hamas or al-Nusra fall into line with his pan-Islamist view of the world.”..
…A central focus of the report is Turkey’s relationship with Hamas, which the United States designates as a terrorist organization, and yet Hamas expanded its presence in Turkey after 2011, establishing offices and networks inside the country…,
David Everitt says
Nice try, but it hasn’t worked has it, that is trying to bring Türkiye into the western fold, they have nailed their colours to the extremist Islamic mast and therefore should not be a part of NATO. There should now be a Christian Crusade to persuade vacationers to give Türkiye a miss for their travels, nothing hurts like empty pockets.
Billy says
Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, UAE, Iran, and the 50+ Islamic Countries are Terrorist States with discrimination, deceit, segregation, violence, and terrorism against Israel, America, and all Non-Muslims as taught by Allah in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Islam’s Muslims are to be Seditionist Terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and their LIVES. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 teaches, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Totalitarian Islam, Its Muslim Homes, its Mosques, its Schools, Its Sleeper Cells, its Sharia Courts, its Organizations, etc. are Terrorist-Criminal Enterprises of hatred and enmity against all Non-Muslims as totalitarian Islam, the House of Satan, islamizes the society with impunity. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day[Non-Muslims]. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid[in Islamic Law], nor believe in the religion of the truth[Islam] among those who have given the book[Jews and Christians] until they pay the jizyah[Extortion Payment] out of hand and they are subdued[disgraced].”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It is good that President Trump spoke of leaving NATO, and I hope that it’s not just a rhetorical exercise on his part, and that he follows through on it. If we can leave WHO, UNESCO and the Paris Climate conference, we should be able to pull out of WEF and NATO as well
Once that’s done, NATO will just be the EU’s Defense equivalent (barring Canada, but I’m not aware of what sort of an army Ottawa has, and whether sending them to defend Europe would be a priority). At that point, let them determine what sort of an ally or adversary Turkey is. Given that most of them are already so dhimmified, maybe Turkey is an ally for them. I do dread to think about what would happen to Greece, Bulgaria and maybe other countries beyond them
gravenimage says
Turkey’s NATO role under scrutiny as it moves away from the West and toward Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas
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Terror funding Turkey should have been ousted from NATO long since.
Mad Mac says
Turkey became a secular state after WWI under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and joined NATO in 1952. Obama and Hillary Clinton’s Arab Spring (Turks are not Arabs so call it a Muslim Spring) encouraged Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) to restore Turkey to an Islamic state.
Turkey should be removed from NATO. Islam is incompatible with western civilization.